From Old Irish fann (“weak, helpless”), from Proto-Celtic *wasnos. Cognate with Breton gwan, Old Cornish guan, and Welsh gwan.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /fˠaun̪ˠ/
• (Aran, Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /fˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /fˠan̪ˠ/

fann (genitive singular masculine fainn, genitive singular feminine fainne, plural fanna, comparative fainne)

1. faint, weak, feeble

   Synonym: tláith

• fainne (“weakness”)
• fannaigh (“to weaken”)
• fannlag (“debilitated”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fann”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /fan/, [fɑn]

fann

1. second-person singular imperative of fannen

From Old Irish fennaid (“to flay, skin”).

fann (verbal noun fanney, past participle fant)

1. to skin, scalp, flay, slash
2. to soak
3. to fleece
4. to dress down
5. to bite (of wind)

• fanneyder

fann

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of finne

fann

1. past tense of finne

• fan, fon

From Proto-West Germanic *βannu, *wannu (“winnowing fan”).

fann f

1. fan (implement for winnowing grain)

Strong ō-stem:

• fannian (“to winnow corn”)

• Middle English: fan
  • English: fan

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “fann”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

fann

1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of finna

fann

1. past indicative of finna